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CMD, 192.xxx.xxx.xxx, Network Connections, LAC not connected. I'm doing all the standard troubleshooting and everything looks good. Modem lights are normal, and I'm not going through a router. At the moment I'm a bit perplexed. Anyone with a suggestion will be appreciated. thanks, Giddyup

I am running IE 8. Frequently a new IE Window opens without me trying to open one. The new window appears to be soliciting something. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hey all, Last saterday I got my new mainboard, cpu and RAM. I connected everything but I still keep getting bluescreens. My HDD's and VGA is from my old pc but allways worked perfectly. At Device manager I could not find any failure. I did Windows 7 RAM test and …

hi guys i got an external 1TB hardrive used to work fine but recently whenever i plug it in to my laptop or desktop it wont pick up although the power light appears to be on....it takes its own power supply dont know if that helps... any ideas???

Ok so I was playing a video game (falcon 4.0), and i randomly got a blue screen of death. I do not recall the error message of that specific incident. Anyways, I rebooted, and after I selected to boot windows XP pro, I got a blue screen that said IRQL …

Hi , I use windows XP SP3. When I create new folder , it does not appear immediately , I have to press F5 so the screen refreshes and then can I see it (this applies to folder creation,renaming or deleting). How can I fix this? As a side note …

Hi, my computer is so slow that it takes sometimes 2 minutes to load a web page. Even offline it is that slow. What causes this and what can I do about it? Jemmmy

After changing my pc display language Italian to English only windows update not workig, and if I reboot again then windows update working but Italian language comes back.Can you solve this problem?

What is free solution available. I need to do two things: 1. Connect at machine in same office. I cannot use RDP as it is KDE Mandriva machine. 2. Connect fro home to that machine without VPN i.e over internet Thanks

Hello All, I have a huge problem. For no apparent reason my PC crashed with the dreaded BSOD. My problem is i cannot get into windows to at least back up my files before restoring my PC. Any suggestions?. Retrieving some data from the hard drive is vital as i …

Working with MS Project Professional 2007. My business is too small to use Project Server. Looking for a workaround so that I can post milestones, tasks, alerts, etc. so that others can see. I have a website and can create a sub web. Is there a 'poor man's' way to …

I have a wired network with a 2 laptops, PC and Tivo connected. I`ve recently upgraded the laptop from Vista to 7 and the PC from XP to 7,the second laptop is running Ubuntu. Everything worked well until the PC would no longer connect to the web although it has …

When my computer was booting up the f10 button was pushed several times . Now all I have is a black screen . I'm running windows xp .Please help

I am a bit of a novice, what can i do to make it go faster? I understand this program will collect programs in the ms config section by itself..Is there a way to keep the running programs on the lean side? Why is this kind of top heavy vs …

Hi All, Does anybody know a nice easy way to remove XP Outlook from my comp, I dont want it, i hate it, theres no need for it.........it just takes up space on my comp. Thankfully i have managed to remove the XP messenger from my system and the Msn …

I have to do reinstallation due to virii destruction in this laptop. I need to slipstream Drivers to this installation. Where to get SATA drivers so that the HDD will be recognized? Currently XP CD SP3 Doen't recognize the drive. Is there another trick?

I can not start my desktop. It is a 2-3 year old Dell with XP home on it5. For the last week or so, I was getting a message about my page file not being found or big enough. zLast night when I tried to start my desktop, all I …

I installed Spybot on my wife's computer running XP Home R3, ran the scan, told it to clean up, the rebooted. Now when she tries to sign on it gives C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM The Parameter is Incorrect. Obviously SPybot removed or changed something it shouldn't have I attempted Last Good, same error. …

Office 2010 awaits us later this year, and I've been wondering what it could possibly offer customers that would compel us to buy or upgrade to this software. Office software in general progressed about as far as most of us needed it to go somewhere in the 90s. Since then …

I'm not sure if this is in the right place. My dad built a computer for me. I have an MSI motherboard and a WinXP Pro OS. I have 3 disk drives. 1 is a floppy, one is a CD-RW (which I have recently discovered, I thought it was just …

how to remove a arrow,attached to desktop shortcut icon?

Hi I have a Dell inspiron 1100 which came with a DVD decoder..but when trying to free up some space on my laptop i seem to have deleted or lost the decoder. I can no longer play DVDs, the option is gone from Windows media player and dell media experience... …

A have a acer laptop that has a 60 GB HD with a c: and e: partition. I did not install the partition and don't know what program created the partition. I would like to remove it without losing any data or if possible without making a backup and of …

Could someone please refer me to a safe website where I can download a MP4 converter. Thanks

Hi fellows! I went to use my computer and I got the blue screen right after when it boots up again past the windows xp logo. The error says "page_fault_in_nonpaged_area" with stop 0x00000050 (0xEC6B738D, 0x00000000, 0x8A70408C, 0x00000002) . I didn't install any new hardware or anything. Prior to that I …

when i open my pc it ask for user name and password , what do i do so that i can enter into my computer with windows xp proffesional

Hi guys!!! just wondering if you could give me websites where i can find simple floor plans for my AutoCAD subject. It would really mean a lot If you could site some. Thanks..

I was wondering is there any programs that tell the temperature of a CPU and support an Intel Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz? I've tried a few programs like core temp and real temp, but my processor wasn't supported on either of those programs. Is there any that support my CPU?

Can anyone here assist using the xcopy command. I want to use it in a batch file to copy folder1 and all its subfolders and files to C:\folder1 thanks in advance

OK heres the deal. i brought this refurbished laptop about six months ago, But when i did i noticed it a said something about validating the microsoft license message at the lower right corner of my screen that just would not go away until it crashed like 2 months later. …

Hello all, I've recently run Malwarebytes to get rid of the Antivirus 2010 virus. All seemed well but I wanted to run it again in safe mode to be sure. Upon pressing f8 and choosing 'start in safe mode', the machine would run through the script indicating it was loading …

I don't know if this is the right forum for this issue, but I will give it a try anyway. We have two computers laptops in our house, one that's pretty new and another one that's a few years old. I few weeks ago, god knows what caused it, the …

Is it possible to change the color of the taskbar from black? It's kinda ugly.

Every time I try and select either my computer, my documents , or control panel from the start menu all of my icons disappear and will eventually reappear but the computer does not open the selected item and will sometimes rearrange all desktop icons??????:evil:

I have spent a little time on Technet, and will be spending more. But I wanted to ask if anyone knew of a website that had "summaries" of steps required to config (or checklists for config) of server 2008 (or server 2003 for that matter). What I mean is, if …

hi just changed my desktop background and when i hit apply the pic and the icons all dissapeared now I cant get it back. start menu still works and some gadgets are still up but other than that its a blank screen

Let me explain the topic :) I'm in an A+ class in college, and as a lab assignment, we were tasked with breaking a computer and getting another team to try and fix it. The only requirement, however, is that it cannot be so bad that the only way to …

when i tried to uninstall ms office 2003 i got error this action is only valid for Products that are currently installed.can anbody tell me why i am getting this error.program still there in the add/remove Programme.Kindly let me know the idea.Any help would be highly appreciated.

Hey, so at my high school, they just got a lot of new windows 7 machines with 8GB of ram and Intel 2.6GHz quad core processors and 1TB hard drives, but they keep randomly crashing. A few of them, some kids hit the power cables and now they won't start …

Trying to assist another who has an XP home machine. Apparently, the recovery disc does not support repair... only reinstall. I would like to assist by using my XP Pro disc using the repair option. Would this work with the different OS versions? Guidance sought

Hi! Could somebody please help me with this problem: My XP OS System Time keeps showing the word "Batangas" right after the digital system time. What should I do to correct this abnormality?

My PC has been very slow and glitchy for a while now. I used to play Fallout 3 at 60FPS and all my other games at good framerates. I haven't played Fallout lately cuz it always freezes my PC now and if it works, it'll work for less than 2 …

hi i disabled my display properties disabled on my computer it the monitor screen an now the screen is black an it not a virus at all i really need help with this one i can see the the mouse at all so how can i get back to the …

can anybody tell me .Local area connection Quick launch icon.available in windows 7.Kindly let me know the idea. Kindly find the attachment also.

When IE trys to connect to a HTTP site nothing happens. FTP and HTTPS work fine. Proxy is not checked under Connections? Help.

can anyone tell me why ProgramData folder in Vista and Windows 7. in earlier widows version like windows xp,windows 2000,Widows 2003 only ProgramFiles Folder .But in the case of Vista and Windows 7.Program Files and Program Data Folder.Why Program Data Folder is needed in Vista and 7 .Kindly let me …

Firstly, thank you all for the kind welcomes to this site, I hope u can help me (i need it). I recently upgraded from dial-up to 2 Meg broadband with Tesco.net. Everything appeared to install fine and it connects but thats where the fun ends. The modem is a Thomson …

Hello, I have installed a network printer on my computer running Windows 7 Professional 32 bit. The install worked fine and I can print fine but when the computer is restarted the printers won't connect again. If i open the printer directory it will ask me for my network credentials …

"Attempt to determine whether user and machine accounts are in the same forest failed (0x6b5)". Does anyone know what this code means? I've searched high and low for the information and everywhere I go, there's never any information out there. Running Windows 2000 server, and this error pops up in …

Hi, Can I install Windows 98 on an XP machine? Run dual operating systems? I need Windows98 because some of my old software won't run on XP. Is this a good/bad idea? How do you do it? or should this be done by a professional? Thanks!